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Mike Miller

General Partner at Liquid 2 Ventures

Seattle, Washington

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $2,500,000.00

Skills

Physics
Python
Algorithms
Monte Carlo Simulation
Mathematica
Particle Physics
LaTeX
Scientific Computing
Programming
Fortran
Numerical Analysis
Machine Learning
Data Analysis
C++
Experimentation
Perl
Sensors
Data Mining
Experimental Physics

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2015

    Founding partner at one of the most active early stage venture capital firms. I invest primarily in Space, Computing and Climate tech, as well as the old bread and butter of cloud infrastructure and developer tools. We believe in founding great teams with audacious goals, especially those using software to displace existing monopolies and market inefficiencies.

  • Affiliate Professor

    2012

  • Research Assistant Professor

    2008 - 2012

    Studying natures fundamental particles and interactions. In particular, part of the 'wild-west' hunt to see Dark Matter in the lab. Dark Matter is 5x more prevalent in the universe than all of the other known particles.

IBM Cloudant

2008 - 2014

  • Founder, Chief Scientist

    2008 - 2014

    Co-founded Cloudant (now IBM Cloud Data Services) out of MIT. YCombinator 2008. Raised $18MM before being acquired by IBM in 2014. Fund raising, technical architecture, sales, recruiting, developer relations, support, operations, evangelism, and long term product R&D.

CERN

2007 - 2008

  • Tier-0 Coordinator

    2007 - 2008

    Responsible for integration, commissioning and operations of the main computing systems for CMS, one of the two large detectors at the Large Hadron Collider.

  • Postdoctoral Fellow

    2005 - 2008

    Pappalardo Fellow in Physics. An MIT take on Harvard's Society of Fellows. Full research autonomy within the institute.

1999 - 2004

  • Graduate Student

    1999 - 2004

    PhD student in experimental particle physics.